Among the many changes, the new rules would require batteries in consumer devices like smartphones to be easily removable and replaceable. That's far from the case today...
It doesn’t even have to be easily replaceable as in: on the go, so that I can switch out batteries during the day. That’s really not important to me.
It just has to be user replaceable, so that I can switch it out at home, with normal tools, when the battery has degraded so much that the phone becomes unusable.
As things are, i have to throw a disproportionate amount of money at some shop to switch out a $10 part, or risk breaking the screen and digitizer when I disassemble the phone with a suction cup and hot gun, just so I can get at the glued down battery.
Either way you’re giving up some space to have a battery that’s easily replaced.
Barely.
It doesn’t even have to be easily replaceable as in: on the go, so that I can switch out batteries during the day. That’s really not important to me.
It just has to be user replaceable, so that I can switch it out at home, with normal tools, when the battery has degraded so much that the phone becomes unusable.
As things are, i have to throw a disproportionate amount of money at some shop to switch out a $10 part, or risk breaking the screen and digitizer when I disassemble the phone with a suction cup and hot gun, just so I can get at the glued down battery.
That’s just ridiculous to me.